2006 Winners - Martin Dibner Fellowship
for Maine Writers Fund

The Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship in fiction has been awarded to Joshua Bodwell of Cape Porpoise and Carrie Jones of Ellsworth. The Maine Community Foundation awards the fellowships annually to promising Maine writers seeking to develop their writing skills.

A graduate of Kennebunk High School, Bodwell is a reporter and columnist for the York County Coast Star. In 1998 he founded Clamp Down Press to print and publish fine, limited editions of poetry and fiction. He has published his poetry and fiction in Portland Magazine, Threepenny Review and Ambit, and has written feature articles for Poets & Writers.

Jones holds a BA from Bates College and is currently enrolled in the MFA writing program at Vermont College. She was formerly editor of the Ellsworth Weekly and has been a reporter for the Bar Harbor Times and Ellsworth American. She received an honorable mention for fiction in the PEN New England/Children’s Book Caucus Discovery Night. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Peninsula Review, Northwoods Journal and Flying Horse Review.

Both writers receive $700 fellowships, which will go toward furthering their writing. This year's judge was novelist William Carpenter, author of The Wooden Nickel and A Keeper of Sheep.

Guidelines can be found at Martin Dibner Fellowship for Maine Writers or by calling toll free 1-877-700-6800.

Novelist and historian Martin Dibner served on the Maine Arts Commission and was the first director of the Payson Gallery at Westbrook College. Several friends created this fund to honor Dibner’s contributions to the art of writing.